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Incidentally, is there any fundamental reason why onion addresses are always so cryptic?
They don't have to be cryptic, but it takes a lot of brute-forcing to get a memorable one. Facebook managed to get https://facebookcorewwwi.onion/
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They don't have to be cryptic, but it takes a lot of brute-forcing to get a memorable one. Facebook managed to get https://facebookcorewwwi.onion/
I get that, my point is why do they have to be brute forced? Why can't you just pick one?
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Anybody know a linux script/software that would 'lock' a domain down to am IP regardless what the registrar does. Maybe have even a out of band way of updating it without the registrars involvement. I guess what I'm looking for would be P2P DNS server although making sure the data is not fake would be difficult without some kind of signing. Wonder if it could use the bitcoin ledger as a kind of key server? Edit: I kn…
Sibling posts are accurate about hard coding /etc/hosts, although Sci Hub needs to move to IPFS [1]. [1] https://ipfs.io/
Until then, torrents of all the files that sci-hub has retrieved (and all files uploaded into libgens scimag section) can be downloaded here. http://libgen.io/scimag/repository_torrent_notforall/
Anyone can torrent these then host them on IPFS without sci-hub's involvement. However, I suspect you'll have a hard time getting any duplicity for all of this. It's over 50mil files!
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They don't have to be cryptic, but it takes a lot of brute-forcing to get a memorable one. Facebook managed to get https://facebookcorewwwi.onion/
I get that, my point is why do they have to be brute forced? Why can't you just pick one?
Recently shared this here: http://www.thebookseller.com/news/elsevier-defends-its-value... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11614926 ) which I'm guessing is the precursor to this debacle. Reading what Elsevier have to say, you'd think they're either completely delusional (I doubt so), or know full well that they're rapidly becoming irrelevant/abhorred and are adopting a bully position, all the while pretending…
"Science is better and more accurate when it's inclusive." (https://twitter.com/ElsevierConnect/status/72821552586887578...)
I realize this is about gender, but I can't help but feel a bit of irony in there...
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Sibling posts are accurate about hard coding /etc/hosts, although Sci Hub needs to move to IPFS [1]. [1] https://ipfs.io/
I'd like to point out that Sci-Hub not only stores scientific papers, but it will retrieve official pdf's through an institutions proxy if it can and if necessary. It could perhaps store stuff there, but it could not provide that service there (yet). Until then, torrents of all the files that sci-hub has retrieved (and all files uploaded into libgens scimag section) can be downloaded here. http://libgen.io/scimag/rep…
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Yes, that's a fair point. I was thinking only of journal articles and conference proceedings. One way of making money off textbooks is to be a professor in an institution with a large number of students and make them a requirement for the course. It also helps to make a few small changes every year and call it a new edition, so each year the next class of students has to buy new ones instead of used copies from the p…
> Yes, that's a fair point. I was thinking only of journal articles and conference proceedings. One way of making money off textbooks is to be a professor in an institution with a large number of students Yeah that behaviour is detestable. Absolutely utterly unethical and everyone who engages in this type of behaviour should take a long look in the mirror and realize that there's an Evil person looking back. I've los…
They could make a ton of money doing it this way: Physics textbooks can sell for hundreds. But many don't.
Using your own book for a course(separate from the money) has its benefits: The book has exactly the content that you want to teach off of, and you can also choose good problems.
When I took a Differential Geometry course in college, the professor had a translated version of some paper from a Russian mathematician back in the 1950s that he taught off of. It was cheaper to get copies from Kinko's, and it's not like the math changes. The old pioneers can sometimes give better intuition too.
(Thanks for daveguy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11593881 ) https://31.184.194.81/ (sci-hub.io cert) https://sci-hub.cc (same ip as above, sci-hub.io cert) https://sci-hub.ac (same ip as above, sci-hub.io cert) https://sci-hub.bz (uses a separate certificate and ip address -- 104.28.20.155) And a tor site: scihub22266oqcxt.onion
Guys, I have a question. If it's this simple to put a server into the onion, why are people not doing this with torrent trackers? I'm thinking specifically about thepiratebay.org which is still banned in the UK (at the ISP level, I believe). Then mirrors appear and then the mirrors get banned? Why not just put it into the onion? Put it there once, problem solved.
But most people don't run tor often or at all.
"As a result of the legal battle the site (sci-hub.io) just lost one of its latest domain names. However, the site has no intentions of backing down, and will continue its fight to keep access to scientific knowledge free and open." Does this not enrage people? Elsevier and closed-access journals like them, are doing all they can to impede human progress while leaching off of tax-payer dollars to do so. Something sho…
This is a case of badly screwed-up incentives. No individual has incentives to fix the system, so they keep optimizing for how they're actually rewarded [academics --> tenure / prestige, journals --> make money, govt --> get lobbied].
> Meanwhile, academic pirates continue to flood to Sci-Hub, domain seizure or not. I realize readers of torrentfreak.com have a different relationship with the word "pirate" but-- This is not piracy. You are entitled to read work from Sci-Hub, as your taxes funded the researchers who created the work. We academics want you to read our work, we do not benefit in any way from publisher paywalls. We continue to publish…
My canadian taxes didn't pay for american research, should I still be able to access those papers?